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The Shadow

«The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church»
«The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.»
«One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen | Keywords: grasping, The Shadow
«Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.»
Author: Jalal ad-Din Rumi (Mystic, Poet) | About: God, Reason | Keywords: hides, officer, the king, The Shadow
«There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.»
«Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.»
Author: Tryon Edwards (Theologian) | About: Happiness | Keywords: The Shadow
«They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.»
«The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.»
«The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.»
«The shadow of victory is disillusion»

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